Hoshinoya Bali
Thirty villas along canal-like pools above the Pakerisan River, east of Ubud, run with Japanese order and calm.
Villas
Songtsam Linka Kunming
Songtsam’s city retreat above Dianchi Lake: 53 rooms and the starting point for the group’s journeys through Yunnan and Tibet.
andBeyond Punakha River Lodge
Six tented suites and two villas on the Mo Chhu river, in the warm rice-growing valley of Punakha.
Yangshuo Sugar House
In 2006 the Hong Kong investor Danny T.T. Chan and his mainland partner Yang Xiaodong bought an abandoned sugar mill of the 1960s on the north bank of the Li River, a few minutes’ drive from Yangshuo, meaning to make it a heritage resort with art and artists in residence. Vector Architects, the Beijing practice … Read more
RAKxa Integrative Wellness
Bang Krachao is a loop of the Chao Phraya just across the river from Bangkok, protected from development and known as the city’s green lung, although it lies in Samut Prakan province. There, on some 200 rai, the Thai developer M.K. Real Estate built RAKxa with VitalLife, the wellness centre of Bumrungrad International Hospital, which … Read more
Santani Wellness Kandy
Sri Lanka’s first purpose-built luxury wellness resort: 22 open pavilions on a former tea estate in the hills near Kandy.
Capella Shanghai, Jian Ye Li
Fifty-five villas in the restored red-brick lane houses of a 1930s estate in the former French Concession.
Fuchun Resort
Rong Cheng, a Taiwanese paper company, came to Fuyang, on the Fuchun River south-west of Hangzhou, looking for a site for a mill. According to the Taiwanese magazine Global Views, its honorary chairman, Cheng Cheng-hsiung, a keen golfer, judged the tea-covered hills too good to spend on papermaking, and the company decided instead on a … Read more
Four Seasons Hotel Hangzhou at West Lake
Four Seasons opened its fourth hotel in China in October 2010 on about nine acres of bamboo, lily ponds and lagoons inside the West Lake Scenic Area, beside a UNESCO World Heritage site, the lake itself. The site is that of the Jin Sha Gang cultural village, from which, the company says, the hotel draws … Read more
Amanfayun
People lived in this valley west of West Lake in the Tang dynasty, and the place was already called Fayun. Its houses were the homes of families who tended the tea on the slopes around them. When Aman opened Amanfayun in January 2010, its second resort in China, it put its rooms into those houses, … Read more